Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Server Administration

For my test environment, I've got a ColdFusion 8 instance running on Windows
2003 Server.  Everything was fine until I rebooted the server.  Then I started
getting an error message:
[Q]Either the Macromedia application server(s) are unreachable or none of them

For reasons unknown to me, CFMX Server service won't start (had been
auto-starting fine for years).  When I attempt to start it, I get "Error 997:
Overlapped I/O operation is in progress."  I've not installed any new programs
since the server last worked fine, and I find no ...

Let me be as crystal clear as possible so there is no confusion.
We have two VM Servers, not to be confused with Virtual Machines themselves...
but two physically separate pieces of hardware.
VM 1 and VM 2 both have 1 instance for a webserver that run an installation of